“Signing that separation agreement would have really silenced me”- Brian Flores claims he left millions of dollars on the table after exiting from the Dolphins
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The former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores who had been assigned as the senior defensive assistant/linebackers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers has been the center of attention since the Super Bowl.
Earlier, The former Miami coach filed a lawsuit against the NFL and multiple teams for reasons related to racism which shook up the entire NFL community as revelations about the discrimination shown in the process of hiring the head coaches of a team was immense.
Now the attorneys of Brian Flores have revealed that the former Miami Dolphins coach had left millions of dollars on the table as he didn’t sign the two-year non-disparagement agreement presented by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross last month.
“It wasn’t about the money”- Attorney of Brian Flores
The attorneys of Brian Flores, Doug Wigdor, and John Elefterakis, were interviewed by Bryant Gumbel of HBO’s “Real Sports” and said, “To Coach Flores’ credit, he wasn’t going to sign that, because… it wasn’t about the money,” Wigdor told Gumbel. “If it was about the money, he would have signed it. What he did instead was he filed this lawsuit so that he could help other coaches, now… and in the future.”
Doug Wigdor further told, “If a coach is terminated with a couple of years or a year left on their contract, they don’t get paid unless they sign a waiver, an NDA, confidentiality, and non-disparagement. So, they buy their silence.”
Brian Flores himself spoke to Bryant Gumbel and said, “Just signing that separation agreement would have really silenced me.”, as Flores filed the lawsuit which showed everyone’s true colors to the whole world and set a bad example for the league due to which the NFL commissioner had to step up and clear the matter.
To these claims of Flores, the Miami Dolphins responded by releasing a statement which said, “This just did not happen and we simply cannot understand why Brian continues this pattern of making unfounded statements that he knows are untrue,” the statement said. “We are fully cooperating with the NFL investigation and look forward to all of the facts coming out which we are confident will prove that his claims are false and defamatory.”
Brian Flores will now be looking forward to working with Mike Tomlin as he joins the Pittsburgh Steelers as a defensive coach for the next season.
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Abhimanyu Chaudhary
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